swamp pop

In the Museum of the Gulf Coast in Port Arthur, next to the replica of Janis Joplin’s psychedelic car and Johnny Winter’s sequins, there are lots of names that are familiar to me. I come from a family of musicians all raised right here on the border of Louisiana, making Swamp Pop more than just […]
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Not long before she died, Janis Joplin popped out to a Vinton nightclub and queried locals: How, she asked, could she go about seeing G.G. Shinn and the Boogie Kings in concert? The Boogie Kings had split up by then, but blue-eyed soul legend G.G. Shinn is still around and playing his own birthday party […]
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Basically every living swamp pop legend will be throwing down at the Orange VFW on Saturday for a show that couldn’t be more authentic if it tried. On the bill: GG Shinn, TK Hulin, Jivin’ Gene Bourgeois, Charles Mann, Gregg Martinez and Ken Marvel. When: 6:30 p.m. Saturday Where: 5303 N. 16th St, Orange Cost: […]
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Sitting quietly in the corner of the barroom is a man in a perfectly tailored suit. He’s your grandfather’s age — though I doubt your grandfather ever looked this good — and his gold rings twinkle as he holds fast to a tall, ornately carved wooden stick. Every hair on his head is exactly where […]
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